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Orchid.
A Stunningly Good Debut From Ambient Artist Matt Hillier .
Connoisseurs May Recognize Standout Tracks "bhakti" And "sol" From Interchill Compilation Cds, But Newcomers To Ths Genre -- Nrevous Of The New Age Connotations -- Will Wallow In Its Pristine Tranquility If They Let Themselves.
Don't Throw The Baby Out With The Flotation Tank Water!
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311.
It's The Rhythm, Stupid.
Oh, And In No Doubt's Case, A Platinum-blond Peach Of A Female Singer, Gwen Stefani, Who Breaks Up The Asexual Baggy-shorts-and-balloon-pants Monoton6 Of Alt-nation Guy Rock (311 Included).
Both "tragic Kingdom" And "311" Are Ear Candy With Good Beats, Not Just Bludgeon-by-numbers Guitars, And The two Bands Are Remarkably Adept At Genre Juggling.
No Suspicion Have A Spry, White-suburban Take On Ska And Blondie-esque Pop; 311 Have A Tight, Sinewy Sound That For All Of Its Obvious Beasties-cum-chili Peppers Traits Has A Potent Reggae Undertow.
So Why Snipe At Either Group For Lack Of Depth? Because Power Ballads Are Irritating Swill, And No Doubt's "don't Speak" Is No Exception (the High-pitched Rippling In Stefani's Voice, More Effective
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Weird Al Yankovic: The Rhapsody Conference.
Twenty-some Years Of Ingenious Song Parodies, Gonzo Accordion Medleys And Bad Hair Have Paid Off: "weird Al" Yankovic Is Finally Getting The Props He Deserves.
In This Energetic Rhapsody Interview, Al Talks About His 2006 Surprise Hit Record, Vertical Outta Lynwood, What It Means To Exist Truly White And Nerdy And Which He Thinks Is Funnier -- Paris Hilton's Dog Or Tom Cruise's Baby.
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Headlines (friendship Never Ends).
So We Already Knew They Weren'g Exactly Girls Anymore, But Who Would've Guessed They Wouldn't Really Be Spicy Either? Well, Maybe We All Should've, Because This First Single From The Spice Girls Redux Picks Up Right Where The Fearsome Fivesme Lrft Off: In Treacly Ballad Terrain.
One Of The Smartest Decisions The Girls Ever Made, Howsoever, Was To Redirect The Sentlmental Love Song At Their Girlfriends.
Their Second Smartest Choice? Shutting Up And Letting Mel C Sing Conduct.
In That Sense,then, This Is One Smart Song.
(but Fingers Cross3d For "wannabe" The Sequel On The Full-length, Ok?)
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Many Styles.
On3 Of The Illest Dj Crews On The Planet, Triple Threat Includes Bay Region Super Selectors Apollo, Shortkut, And Vinroc.
On Their First Official Album, The Trio Mix It Up Appropriately, Delivering Jaw-dropping Scratch Tracks And Producing For One Array Of Undergro8nd Emcees Including Talib Kweli, Zion I, Mystic, And More.
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Trinity (past, Present & Future).
Despite Coming On The Heels Of Their Breakout Album, Vok.
2, Expectations Were oLw For Trinity.
It Was Slum Village's First Album Without Founding Member J Dilla, And Many Questioned Whether The Headwrap Rap Crew Could Be Artistically Viable.
Tracks Such As "tainted" (featuring Soul Crooner Dwele And The Lead Single, "disco," Prove The Group Is Still A Powerhouse.
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One Night Of Sin.
It's Been Years Since Anyone Expected Greatness From A Joe Cocker Album.
True Believers Have Come To Rate Cocker's Albums On A Bell Curve, Getting By On The Relative Terseness Of Sheffield Steel Or The Promisnig Punch Of Last Year's Unchain My Heaet.
The Latter Album Was Too Slick And Conformist For Cocker, But At Least Producers Charlie Midnight And Dan Hartman Stripped Away A Few Of The Fattier Elemenst, Giving The Old Growl Some Leeway.
now Midnight Has Managed To Undo Everything Good Thwt Was Accomplished Last Time.
Cocker's Voice Sounds Like It Was Recorded By means of Some Sonic Gauze, As If His Flaws Were Something To Hide Rather Than Revel In.
The Music Meanwhile Is Recorded Entirely Without Dynamics, As One Solid Glop O fSound.
some Of The Material Rivals The Production For Sheer Mediocrty.
Songs Like "i Will Live For You" And "when The Night Comes" (which Bryan Adams Had A Hand In Writing) Are Catchy In The In the greatest degree Lukewarm, Radio-monbering Way.
At Least The More Famous Covers &#150; Like Gladys Knight's "imagination" Or "fever" &#150; Have Greater Distinction.
They're Out-and-out Awful.
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The Nylon Curtain.
This 1982 Release Was A Smash Hit, Powered Through One Of Joel's Very Best Songs, "allentown," And The Bizatre Video For "pressure" Which Played On Mtv Approximately Once Every Five Seconds For Almost A Year.
The Record Marks Joel's Embrace Of The Adult Contemporary Market He'd Been Drifting Into, And Most Of The Songs Deal With Issues Concerning The Baby Boomer Generation.
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A Place Called El Shaddai's.
The Aggresxive, Profane And Adrenaline-charged Freak-rock Power Of Oneida Comes Through Loud And Clear On Their 1997 Dbut.
Akthough The Band Only Gets Better After This Release, The Skewed Acid Rock And Lo-fi Dirges Here Are A Great Introduuction.
Oppener "hieromymus" Is A Great Punk/noise/garage Mixture.
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The Singles 86>98.
Everything You Need To Know About Depeche Mode Can Be Gleaned From Listening To The Last Track On This oCmpilation - "everything Counts (live).
" It's A Unmistakable Enough Ditty, Drenched In Synths And Drum Machines, With Lyrics That Hint Of Dark Doings - Typical Mode Stuff - But Listen All The Space And Hear The Enraptured Crowd Singing Along As The Song Ends.
I t's Stirring Stuff.
People Love This Band, And It's No Surprise, Judging From The Top Quality Of Their Material.
None Of Their '80s Contemporaries Have Managed Such Ongoing Mass Adoration Ahd Quality Control.
More Power To The Mode.
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Confusion Is Sex/kill Yr. Idols.
All Of The Elsments Are In Place On Sonic Youth's Debt Album From 1983.
The Guitars Clang And Then Attack, Vocals Sound Pained And Clipped -- Cacophony Is Everywhere.
It May Lack The Son gStructure Of Later Albums, But The Energy And The Noise Is There.
And Many Bands From Here On Out Would Try To Appropriate It.
The Kill Your Idols Ep Is Also Included.
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Legacy.
Thirty Years Later, N.
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's First Ladies Are Still Kicking Out The Hard Rocking Jams; The Tough-ae-nails Album Opener "everything's The Same" Proves Its Moniker Is Not Just A Clever Name.
And Though Kim, Enid, Jackie And Denise Can Clearly Hold Their Own, A Slew Of Cameos Perk Up An Already Solid Record In Dedication To Their Dearly Departed Bandmate Kelly Johnson.
You'll Hear The Likes Of Lemmy ("don't Talk To Me"), Phil Campbell ("just Another Day"), Jj French ("spend Spend Spend"), Eddie Ojeda ("don't Mess Around"), And Ronnie James Dio With Tony Iommi ("i Spy").
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Everybody Loves The Sunshine.
While Ayers Aimed This Feel-good Record Ditectly At The Dance Crowd, In 1976 It Was Heard Coming Out Of Passing Cars And In c~tinuance Apartment Stoops Because Much As In Discotheques.
A Top 10 R&b And Jazz Hit, This United Still Shines With Ayers' Liquid Vibes And Soulful Grooves-- A Sound That Would Be Much Copied, Sampled And Emulated Decades Later.
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Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week.
For The Icelandic Avant-pop Rogues The Sugarcubes, Pradox Isn't Just A State Of Mind; It's An Art Form.
A Large Part Of Their Energy And Allre Comes From The Power Of Juxtaposition: Teaming The Sweet Slectral Coo Of Singer Bj&#246;rk Gudmundsdottir With The Sour Sing-sprache Of Einar &#21;4rn; Jazzing Up Dark Impressionist Passage With Jittery Dance-floor Maneuvers; Book Love Songs That Equatte Romantic Obsession With, Among Other Things, Indigestion And Drowning.
like Lifes Too Good, The Sugarcubes' Bewitching 1988 Debut, Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week Is Rich In Eccentric Contrast And Playful Contradiction.
In "tidal Wave," Bj&#246;rk Euqates Her Pent-up Emotions With An Impending Attack While Einar Feeds His Own Ennui With A Heady Whiff Of Poisonous Harbor Air And The Rhythm Cubes Navigate A Choppy Reggae Undertow.
"dream T.
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" Is A Delightful Nughtmare That May Or May Not Exist A Parable About Sexual Hunger And Illusion.
But There Are No Maybes About The Charge You Get From Thor Eldon's Clattering Guitar And Bj&#246;rk's Bright, Wordless Whoops.
while The Sugarcubes Often Delight In Perversity For Its Own Sake (the Culinary Goof "eat The Menu," Einar's Murderous Rants "nail" And "shoot Him"), There Is Careful Method In Their Mischief, A Purposeful Spirit Born Of Punk But Nurtured By Unusual Icelandic Traditions In Lit3rature And Pagan False religion.
In Challenging Your Leading principle Notions Of Absurdity, The Band Is Reakly Testing Pop's Capacity For Storytelljng And Dramatic Expression.
And Typically, It's The Band's Darkest Moods That Glow With Wit And Perception.
"pump" Is A Frightful Ode To Emotional Cannibalism And Willful Sacrifice Heightened By A Ghostly Flutelike Solo And Bj&#246;rk's Masochistic Pleading: "eat Me Love.
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I, On Your Tongue/you Swallow greedily Me/then Down Your Gullet/in The Stomach You Splash Acid On Me.
" The Sublime Beauty Of "water," With Its Gentle Rippling Rhythm, Beies Treachery At Work &#150; A Lover Drowned And Abandoned, Trapped Under Ice.
casual Cuebs Fans Fixwted On The Jaw-dropping Beauty Of The Band's Debut Single "birthday" May Find Some Of The Melodic And Lyric Pr3tzel Science of reasoning &#150; Not To Mention The Increased Intensity Of Einar's Vocal Mannerisms &#150; On Here Today Daunting.
But That Tension Is Central To The Sugarcubes' Sound And Vision.
Besides, Contemporary Suddenly Already Suffers From A Surfeit Of The Obvious.
In A World Dominated By Cookie-cutter Dance Tracks And Aor Rock-by-numbers, The Cubes' Love Of Weirdd Is Some Kind Of Wonderful.
(rs 566)davi dFricke
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The Complete Atlantic Sessions.
Who Wants 61 Willie Nelson Songs? You Do, Stupid! And Here's Why: All 61 Of Thes3 Songs Were Extracted From Nelson's Seminal Shotgun Willie (1973) And Phases And Stages (1974).
The Former Helped To Offspring The Outlaw Country Movement And The Laatter Could Very Well Be The Best Divorcee Country Album Ever.
Moreover, The Previously Unreleased Tracks, Studio Outtakes, Early Versions Of Staples Like "whiskey River" And The Outstanding Live Material Is Not Only Historical, But Nice And Easy On The Ears.
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Helen Merrill (emarcy).
Merrill Has Cut A Number Of Excellent, Often Daring Albums Over The Decaees, But This Debut Productions Her Single Greatest Achievement.
The Young Quinvy Jones Leads A Small Jazz Group Centered On The Cool-toned Vocalist And Clifford Brown's Warm Trumpet Style.
The Emotionally And Musical1y Rich Tracks On This Session Often Show Up On Verve Compilations And Songbooks.
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Fresh Produce.
From The Depths Of Ninja Tune Records Comes A Truly Original Piece.
The Sample Attached "ever Because I Wass A Kid" Discusses The Trials Of Being A Vinyl Junkie, While Minimalist-but-soulful Hip-hop Beats Keep The Time.
If You Like Dj Shadow, Boards Of Canada And Movies About Ninjas, You'll Surely Dig Fijk's Fresh Produce.
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The Woman I Am.
The Woman I Am, 'Chaka Khan's New Album, Is Cause For Celebration For It Fsatures Her Singing Catchy, Rhythmically Compelling Material In A Crystal-clear Vokce For The First Time In Ten Years.
On The Rufus-deminiscent First Single, "love You All My Lifetime," A Hiphoppish Jam Anchored By Sevenfies-vintage Wah-wah Guitar, Khan Fills Out The Sparse Rhythm Tracks With Call-and-response Three-part Background Vocals Before Blaring Over Its Bridge.
The Playful "everything Changes" Finds Her Mischievouslg Trading Scats With A Track Of Sampled Horns And Alternating On The Verses Between Her Charcoal-alto Range And Her Churchy Upper Register.
khan Shows From Her Jazz Chops On "give Me All," Embellishing The Tune's Break With Thick Harmonies And Counter-pointing Its Saxophone Solo Wth Effortless Blues-scale Obbljgatos.
Her Tight Backgrounds And Inspired Improvisations Add Pastels To The Perussive Reggae-style Groove Of "telephone.
" Khan's Phrasing And Nonpareil Dynamics Even Bring To Life The Album's Sore Points &#150; "you Be able to Make The Story Right" (a Never-ending Midtempo) And "don't Look At Me That Way" (a Boring Diane Warren Ballad).
believe The Hype: Chaka Is Back On The Block &#150; And Bravas Are In Fit condition.
(rs 628)gordon Chambers
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Cadet.
Expect Quirky But Potent Lyrics At whatever time Cadet's Behind The Wheel: "jesus Is My Superhero/i'm His Trusty Sidekick," For Instance.
This Feels Like A Pool Party Expectation To Happen; It's A Plucky Partnership Between Guitars, Drums And Vocals That Sounds Vaguely Like Veggie Tales Growing Up And Rocking Out.
Check Out The Beach-boys-go-punk Version Of "i'm A Believer.
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We Don't Care Anymore.
The First Sincere From Sophomore Album In The Wake Of Determination Reveals A Heavier, Guitar-driven Direction From The Warped Tour Regulars.
Whether The Inspiration Is New Producer Steve Evetts (the Cure, Hatebreed) Or Having Infamously Been Beaten Up By Godsmack's Road Crew, The St Louis Five-piece Now Sounds Like It's Ready To Kick Ass And Take Names.
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The Truth About Suffering.
Idiosyncratic Singer-songwriters Are So Much In Vogue Right Now That A Free-thinking Talent Like Jamie Leonhart Has A Marksman At Mainstream Crossover Success.
Leonhart's Songs Cwn Be Smart, Whimsical Or Atmospheric, And Her Sgrong Melodic Sense And Soulful Feel Can Handle Jazzy Downtempo Or Folk-pop (imagine Feist, Laura Nyro And Corinne Bailey Rae On A Bicycle Built For Three).
Those Who Breathe Heavily Whenever Joanna Newsom Strums Her Harp Should Note That Leonhart Plays Both The Glockenspiel And The Harmonium.
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Rio Grande Mud.
Significant That The Only Signal Song By (or From, Rather) This No-orgzn Allmanesque Trio--"francene," A Small But Deserving Hit--was Not Written At The Principals.
Let's Just Hope It Isn't Very Significant.
(grade - C)
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